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TIL on August 9, 1965, Singapore was expelled from Malaysia, becoming the first and only country to date to achieve independence unwillingly

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JYyxQ TIL the Queen's Engineering Society's motto "Quis Dolor Cui Dolium" translates to "Who suffers who has a cask of wine?" This motto was devised in 1963 to lend some Latin dignity to the Society's informal English motto, "What the hell as long as there's free beer."
m5mp TIL that the Buccaneers were originally “legal” pirates of the French and English paid to attack Spanish ships in the caribbean. Their name, buccaneer, stemming from the native ‘buccan’, a wooden rack for smoking meats. They were hired pirates who made and ate Jerkey.
E1yXp TIL the odds of having the same finger print as someone else is 1 in 64 billion. Because there have been over 108 billion people to have ever lived on earth, many people, either dead or alive, will have to have the same fingerprint
4XY6w TIL - In 1836 a lowly sewer worker asked the governors at the Bank of England to meet him in the vault because he had identified a breach of security. Incredulously they complied, only to see the man pop up to join them through a hole in the floor by moving a few floorboards.
jNBrR TIL: Richard Turner, world famous card mechanic won “Close-Up Magician of the Year” of 2014, fooled Penn & Teller on “Fooled Us” in 2017 and has a black belt in karate, has been legally blind since childhood. Dealt is a documentary about his life, career, and coming to terms with his loss of sight